Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe startup purchased tens of thousands of books at a time from multiple vendors, including Better World Books and UK-based World of Books. The following year, Mann shared a link to the Pirate Library Mirror – a full catalogue of illegally acquired books – with other Anthropic employees. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementHowever, the ruling drew a distinction between books the company bought and scanned and the millions of books it had previously pirated. "The court's landmark June 2025 ruling remains intact," Anthropic deputy general counsel Aparna Sridhar said in a statement to the Post. "The issue we settled on was about how some materials were acquired, not whether we could use them to develop [AI]."